Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Public WorksU.S. Government Printing Office, 1969 |
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Administration agencies airspace amendments appropriate Arkansas River assistance associated land resources authorized benefits bill building Chairman Clark Hill CLAUSEN Colonel EGBERT compact Congress Congressman Conservancy District construction Corps of Engineers cost counties Creek DENNEY Development District District of Columbia economic development Ed Edmondson EDMONDSON evaluation facilities Federal flood control Fort Smith funds GATCHELL gentleman going Government GRAY growth HAMMERSCHMIDT HARSHA highway increase industrial interest Interstate Commission JOHN PAUL HAMMERSCHMIDT JONES KLUCZYNSKI legislation Little Rock loans located McEwEN ment million navigation Oklahoma percent planning PODESTA population post office Potomac River Basin President problems question recreation Regional Commission Reservoir ROBERT ROSSIDES rural Savannah River SCHWENGEL signatory bodies South Carolina statement stream subcommittee Thank tion United urban water and associated water pollution water resources watershed West Virginia White House Police York
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Page 41 - States to make speeches, and he said if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach him to fish, then he can feed himself for life.
Page 84 - That, hereafter, Federal investigations and improvements of rivers and other waterways for flood control and allied purposes shall be under the jurisdiction of and shall be prosecuted by the War Department under the direction of the Secretary of War and supervision of the Chief of Engineers...
Page 20 - ... with any of the United States legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows: A COMPACT Entered into by and among the contracting states, signatories hereto, with the consent of the Congress of the United States of America...
Page 98 - Finally, the act authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to enable the Secretary...
Page 111 - States affected for such special designation; (B) the proposed center is geographically and economically so related to the district that its economic growth may reasonably be expected to contribute significantly to the alleviation of distress in the redevelopment areas of the district...
Page 34 - The moneys necessary to finance the Commission in the administration of its business in the Conservancy District shall be provided through appropriations from the signatory bodies and the United States...
Page 1 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress is hereby given to...
Page 21 - The commission shall elect from its number a chairman and a vice chairman and shall appoint and at its pleasure remove or discharge such officers and employees as may be required to carry the provisions of this compact into effect and shall fix and determine their duties, qualifications and compensation.
Page 1 - Act ; or (2) be construed as impairing or in any manner affecting any right or jurisdiction of the States with respect to the waters (including boundary waters) of such States.
Page 30 - ... of the waters subject to the terms of this compact, that no single standard of sewage and waste treatment and no single standard of quality of receiving waters is practical and that the degree of treatment of sewage and industrial wastes should take into account the classification of the receiving waters according to present and proposed highest use, such as for drinking water supply, industrial and agricultural uses, bathing and other recreational purposes, maintenance and propagation of fish...